Note that this is not part of any settlement; according to Polygon, it's the result of Activision doing a little homework on the case before it actually goes to trial, and deciding that instead of taking a whole bunch of former Infinity Ward employees to court, they'd be focusing their legal crosshairs on just West and Zampella.

Becaue of this, the $42 million paid by Activision constituted bonus payments owed to other former IW staffers, now at the pair's new studio Respawn, payments which had previously been withheld.